Exact analytical evaluation of second-order PMD impact on the outage probability for a compensated system

Author

Forestieri, Enrico ; Prati, Giancarlo

Author_Institution

Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna di Studi Univ.ri e Perfezionamento, Pisa, Italy

Volume

22

Issue

4

fYear

2004

fDate

4/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

988

Lastpage

996

Abstract

An exact analytical method for evaluating the outage probability due to second-order polarization mode dispersion in a system with first-order compensation is presented. In an uncompensated system the outage is mainly due to the mean differential group delay, whereas higher order effects have low impact. It is shown that in a compensated system all orders contribute to the outage probability, whereas accounting for exact second-order only gives a slight overestimate. Approximate second-order models leaving residual higher order effects may lead to very different outage probabilities.

Keywords

compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; probability; communication system performance; compensated system; differential group delay; optical fiber communication; optical fiber polarization; outage probability; polarisation mode dispersion; polarization mode dispersion; second-order PMD; second-order models; Delay effects; Frequency; Higher order statistics; Intersymbol interference; Optical distortion; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2004.825361

Filename

1291542